The announcement by federal prosecutors that they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in the Boston Marathon bombing came as no surprise to people who lost limbs or suffered other injuries in last year's attack.

THE POLICE ACADEMY SEX SCANDAL KATHY CURRAN UNCOVERS. FROM BOSTON'S NEWS LEADER, THIS IS WCVB NEWSCENTER 5 AT 11:00. SEEKING DEATH. PROSECUTORS WILL PUSH TO EXECUTE DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV. CRUEL, DEPRIVED, THAT IS THE STRONG LANGUAGE PROSECUTORS ARE USING ABOUT TSARNAEV TO BACKUP THE CONTROVERSIAL NEWS. WCVB NEWSCENTER 5 NEWS' PHIL LIPOF IS LIVE TONIGHT. PHIL? WELL, HEATHER, CERTAINLY DOES OPEN A NEW CHAPTER, BUT IT ALSO OPENS SOME OLD, VERY PAINFUL WOUNDS, WHILE MANY IN THE LEL COMMUNITY EXPECTED THIS VERY DECISION, IT IS STILL BEING MET WITH MIXED REACTION. THE DECISION TO SEEK THE DEATH PENALTY CAME A DAY BEFORE THE DEADLINE. THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LOOKING TO PUT KALAMAZOO HOCK TSARNAEV TO DEATH. IN PAPERS FILED TODAY, PROSECUTORS SAY THE CASE WARRANTS THE DEATH PENALTY BECAUSE TSARNAEV COMMITTED THE OFFENSE AFTER PREMEDITATION, THAT HE BETRAYED THE ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED STATES AND MADE STATEMENTS SUGGESTING THAT OTHERS WOULD BE JUSTIFIED IN COMMITTING ADDITIONAL ACTS OF VIOLENCE. SEEING ON PAPER, THE GOVERNMENT'S REASONING LID OUT IS WHAT STRIKES US. THE DECISION, ITSELF, IS CERTAINLY NOT A SURPRISE. EVERYBODY KIND OF NEW THIS WAS COMING. INCLUDING BOSTON'S MAYOR. IT IS NO SECRET THAT THE MAYOR IS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY, BUT SAYS HE SUPPORTS THIS PROCESS. AS YOU ALL MOW, AS A STATE REPRESENTATIVE, I VOTED AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY. IF I WERE TO ASK TO VOTE ON THAT TODAY, I WOULD VOTE THE SAME WAY, BUT THIS IS NOT MY VOTE TO CASTOR MY DECISION TO MAKE. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN COURT, NOTHING WILL HEAL THOSE WHO ARE WOUNDED OR BRING BACK 8-YEAR-OLD RICHARD, OR OFFICER SEAN COLLIER. IT IS GOING TO BE OK. SPEAKING ABOUT ALL OF THEM TONIGHT, AND VUKER TO YA MCGRAPH, THE WOMAN HE HELPED AFTER THE FIRST BOMB WENT OFF. TYLER HAS MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY. IT IS HARD TO SAY WHETHER HE DESERVES IT, YOU KNOW? I THINK IT WOULD BE BEST TO KIND OF ASK THE VICTIMS. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, THANK GOD THE DECISION IS NOT UP TO ME, IT IS A HUGE DECISION TO MAKE. IT IS A HUGE DECISION, AND GAGING REACTION FOR US TONIGHT